This document discusses electronic resource management (ERM) tools and their potential uses. It provides definitions of ERM, lists examples of both commercial and locally created ERM tools, and recommends that libraries strategically assess their needs before selecting a tool. The document emphasizes developing a needs assessment to identify any problems with managing electronic resources and determining what functionality would help end users.
This document summarizes a presentation on using bibliographic couplings to analyze the structure of a large public university. The presentation analyzed co-citation networks between university scholars and the papers they cited to identify overlapping intellectual communities across disciplines. It identified key individuals who bridge communities and act as knowledge conduits. The analysis found that the network of engaged scholars bears little resemblance to the existing academic units, suggesting opportunities to restructure the university to better support interdisciplinary work.
The document provides citations for 3 articles from the Converge Magazine: Technology in Education website. The first article discusses how medical technology helps teens with disabilities. The second article talks about a high-tech school bus that teaches students. The third article describes how Granville County Schools created a technology culture.
Presentation slides for my presentation on ERMes, an open source e-resource management system, given June 27, 2010 at the American Library Association's annual conference in Washington, DC.
The document discusses how various social media tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and blogs can help connect and engage different groups associated with a College of Law, including law faculty, staff, alumni, and media. It proposes using tools like blogs to allow faculty to receive feedback on their work, Facebook for students and alumni networking, and bookmarking sites to share information with these groups. Twitter is not seen as a good fit, but other tools could meet communication and engagement needs.
Dr. Eugenijus Kurilovas serves on the editorial boards and as a reviewer for numerous scientific journals and books related to computer science, education, and information technology. He has reviewed for over 30 journals indexed in the ISI Web of Science and other databases. Dr. Kurilovas also serves on the program committees and as a reviewer for over 30 international conferences in related fields.
RDAP 15: Supplemental Files for ETDS: Diversity, Documentation, and DataASIS&T
This document discusses challenges related to supplemental files deposited alongside electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Between 2010-2014, 129 out of 6472 theses and dissertations (about 2%) included supplemental files containing data, code, protocols, and other materials. However, these files are often poorly described and the formats, relationships to the ETDs, access policies, and review processes require clarification to ensure the materials are properly understood, preserved, and accessible over time. The document examines these issues and calls for guidelines and policies to address them.
The 2017 IEEE MTT Texas Symposium on Wireless & Microwave Circuits & Systems will be held March 30-31, 2017 at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers on topics related to wireless and microwave circuits and systems. Paper submissions are due by January 31, 2017 and published papers will be archived in IEEE Xplore. The conference aims to bring together industry and academic researchers to present and discuss the latest developments and applications in wireless and microwave technologies.
Powered by change or spinning our wheels: The chaotic world of electronic res...Jennifer Richard
Over the last twenty years, library collections have gone from primarily print to overwhelmingly electronic. In our efforts to keep pace with these changes, we have attempted to fit square pegs into round holes – the round holes being our traditional integrated library systems (ILS) and our traditional staffing structures within libraries. It is now apparent that many of those traditional library tasks of ordering and receiving print materials, labelling, shelving, tracking and claiming are fading into history. Now librarians and library staff are consumed by many new challenges including: ejournal packages and inaccurate title lists, changing standards (Counter 3 or Counter 4, KBART), individual subscriptions each with their own license, interpretation of licenses, new copyright laws, management of usernames and passwords for multiple databases and subscriptions, perpetual rights, discovery layers, indexing, resolvers, proxy services, unwieldy statistics and the lack of time to collect and analyse them, plus ebooks. Based on data collected, as part of the CAUL Electronic Resources Management Survey in 2014, funded by the CAUL Innovation and Research Grant, this session will review the current state of ERMS in academic libraries in Atlantic Canada and discuss possible solutions for better management of these electronic resources.
This document summarizes a presentation on using bibliographic couplings to analyze the structure of a large public university. The presentation analyzed co-citation networks between university scholars and the papers they cited to identify overlapping intellectual communities across disciplines. It identified key individuals who bridge communities and act as knowledge conduits. The analysis found that the network of engaged scholars bears little resemblance to the existing academic units, suggesting opportunities to restructure the university to better support interdisciplinary work.
The document provides citations for 3 articles from the Converge Magazine: Technology in Education website. The first article discusses how medical technology helps teens with disabilities. The second article talks about a high-tech school bus that teaches students. The third article describes how Granville County Schools created a technology culture.
Presentation slides for my presentation on ERMes, an open source e-resource management system, given June 27, 2010 at the American Library Association's annual conference in Washington, DC.
The document discusses how various social media tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and blogs can help connect and engage different groups associated with a College of Law, including law faculty, staff, alumni, and media. It proposes using tools like blogs to allow faculty to receive feedback on their work, Facebook for students and alumni networking, and bookmarking sites to share information with these groups. Twitter is not seen as a good fit, but other tools could meet communication and engagement needs.
Dr. Eugenijus Kurilovas serves on the editorial boards and as a reviewer for numerous scientific journals and books related to computer science, education, and information technology. He has reviewed for over 30 journals indexed in the ISI Web of Science and other databases. Dr. Kurilovas also serves on the program committees and as a reviewer for over 30 international conferences in related fields.
RDAP 15: Supplemental Files for ETDS: Diversity, Documentation, and DataASIS&T
This document discusses challenges related to supplemental files deposited alongside electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Between 2010-2014, 129 out of 6472 theses and dissertations (about 2%) included supplemental files containing data, code, protocols, and other materials. However, these files are often poorly described and the formats, relationships to the ETDs, access policies, and review processes require clarification to ensure the materials are properly understood, preserved, and accessible over time. The document examines these issues and calls for guidelines and policies to address them.
The 2017 IEEE MTT Texas Symposium on Wireless & Microwave Circuits & Systems will be held March 30-31, 2017 at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers on topics related to wireless and microwave circuits and systems. Paper submissions are due by January 31, 2017 and published papers will be archived in IEEE Xplore. The conference aims to bring together industry and academic researchers to present and discuss the latest developments and applications in wireless and microwave technologies.
Powered by change or spinning our wheels: The chaotic world of electronic res...Jennifer Richard
Over the last twenty years, library collections have gone from primarily print to overwhelmingly electronic. In our efforts to keep pace with these changes, we have attempted to fit square pegs into round holes – the round holes being our traditional integrated library systems (ILS) and our traditional staffing structures within libraries. It is now apparent that many of those traditional library tasks of ordering and receiving print materials, labelling, shelving, tracking and claiming are fading into history. Now librarians and library staff are consumed by many new challenges including: ejournal packages and inaccurate title lists, changing standards (Counter 3 or Counter 4, KBART), individual subscriptions each with their own license, interpretation of licenses, new copyright laws, management of usernames and passwords for multiple databases and subscriptions, perpetual rights, discovery layers, indexing, resolvers, proxy services, unwieldy statistics and the lack of time to collect and analyse them, plus ebooks. Based on data collected, as part of the CAUL Electronic Resources Management Survey in 2014, funded by the CAUL Innovation and Research Grant, this session will review the current state of ERMS in academic libraries in Atlantic Canada and discuss possible solutions for better management of these electronic resources.
Shane O'Doherty fue un terrorista del IRA que pasó 14 años en prisión tras ser condenado a 30 cadenas perpetuas. En la cárcel se dio cuenta de su error al estudiar los Derechos Humanos y la Biblia, sintiéndose avergonzado de sus acciones. Decidió pedir perdón públicamente a sus víctimas, aunque muchas no le aceptaron el arrepentimiento. Su experiencia la dejó escrita en un libro, siendo el primer testimonio de un miembro arrepentido del IRA.
The document discusses different perspectives on freedom from various thinkers and texts. It explores freedom as autonomy but also as being in relation to others and truth. True freedom is discussed as not being a will to do whatever one wants, but living within reciprocity and shared standards. Freedom belongs to human nature but can also lead to destruction if not guided by discipline and accountability before God.
The document discusses power and how it relates to work. It defines power as the rate at which work is done, and provides the formula that power is equal to work divided by time. It gives examples of calculating power from examples of objects being moved over distances in certain times, applying force. Units of power like watts and horsepower are also explained.
This document provides instructions for installing the transducer and display unit for the Lowrance Elite 5 Sonar/GPS system. It describes selecting a transducer location with smooth water flow, aligning the transducer bracket for parallel installation, assembling the bracket components, attaching the transducer to the transom, routing cables, and performing a test run to confirm proper installation. The document also notes that these instructions do not fully apply to the Elite 5m since it does not include a transducer.
This newspaper article from The Sun reports on an alleged attack on a former model, Alicia Douvall, by her ex-boyfriend. The headline uses attention-grabbing language to summarize that the ex-boyfriend "battered" Douvall as she drove her car. The article includes a large photo of Douvall with bruises on her face and quotes from her describing the attack. While only telling the story from Douvall's perspective, the article cites her as the source of information and avoids naming the ex-boyfriend since he has only been arrested, not charged, to prevent legal issues like libel.
This document provides information about an 8-day continuing education course on comprehensive restorative and esthetic dentistry offered by the University of the Philippines Manila from March to May 2010. The course will cover fundamentals of esthetic dentistry, clinical esthetic procedures, and additional esthetic procedures through lectures and hands-on workshops. It will be led by 13 instructors who are experts in various fields of restorative and esthetic dentistry. The course fee is 30,000 PHP and space is limited to 20 participants.
Infrastructures Supporting Inter-disciplinary Research - Exemplars from the UK NeISSProject
Infrastructures Supporting Inter-disciplinary Research - Exemplars from the UK . Talk given by Richard Sinnott at Urban Research Infrastructure Network Workshops, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, September 2010.
OCLC Research @ U of Calgary: New directions for metadata workflows across li...OCLC Research
Presentation used as scene setting for 2 days worth of discussion around library, archive & museum convergence, metadata workflows and single search at the University of Calgary.
Individual e journal subscription: assembly requiredxqhiris
The document discusses the challenges of managing individual e-journal subscriptions and recommendations for developing workflows and using tools. It describes the multi-step process involved in gaining access, which includes prioritizing titles, organizing license and access information, selecting tools like Excel and an ERM system, and documenting all actions. Case studies from two universities explain how they audit subscriptions, develop checklists and workflows, and use free and low-cost tools like Excel and an open source ERM to track e-journal access and licenses. The key lessons are to assume nothing, document everything, and check processes periodically.
Metadata practice and direction:a community perspectivelisld
The document discusses metadata practices from a community perspective. It describes how metadata supports operations on resources by providing information without requiring advance knowledge of resources. Multiple communities have different metadata practices reflecting their traditions and needs. Going forward, interoperability is important to share and combine resources and metadata from different sources, while balancing standardization with the realities of diverse legacy systems and community practices.
This document provides an introduction to data mining concepts and techniques. It discusses why data mining is needed due to the massive growth of data. It defines data mining as the extraction of interesting patterns from large datasets. The document outlines the key steps in the knowledge discovery process and how data mining fits within business intelligence applications. It also describes different types of data that can be mined and popular data mining algorithms.
Science is rapidly being brought into the electronic realm and electronic laboratory notebooks (ELN) are a big part of this activity. The representation of the scientific process in the context of an ELN is an important component to making the data recorded in ELNs semantically integrated.
This presentation outlined initial developments of an Electronic Notebook Ontology (ENO) that will help tie together the ExptML ontology, HCLS Community Profile data descriptions, and the VIVO-ISF ontology.
The document provides an overview of the work done at DERI Galway, including developing technologies like SIOC, ActiveRDF, and BrowseRDF to interconnect online communities and enable semantic applications. It also describes JeromeDL, a digital library system that uses semantic metadata and services to allow users to collaboratively browse and share knowledge.
This document describes a case study where the University of Denver used Getty vocabularies as linked open data in a cataloging tool for an academic teaching collection. The tool was designed with a user-friendly interface, Dublin Core metadata, and integrated authority control drawn from sources like ULAN, AAT, and Library of Congress. Screenshots show how materials could be cataloged and metadata exported to other systems using standards from the semantic web like URIs, RDF, and SPARQL. The tool helped increase efficiency and quality of metadata production for the teaching collection.
On Tuesday 18 September 2007, Ben Shneiderman gave a talk at the Centre for HCI Design, City University London, on the topic of information visualisation for high-dimensional spaces. Over 100 people from industry and academia attended the talk.
http://hcid.soi.cty.ac.uk/
ACS 248th Paper 146 VIVO/ScientistsDB Integration into EurekaStuart Chalk
This document discusses integrating faculty and scientist profiling data from external sources like VIVO and ScientistsDB into the Eureka Research Workbench system. It presents the motivations for enhancing collaboration features in Eureka. Details are provided on accessing data through the APIs of VIVO, ScientistsDB, and Elasticsearch to profile and search for researchers. The implementation involves developing CakePHP plugins to ingest data from these sources. Future plans include expanding the number of integrated sources to better enable finding collaborators.
Further Information: http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem
The CeDEM12 proceedings present the essence of academic and practical knowledge on e-democracy and open government in a nutshell. All selected academic papers, keynotes, short presentations and workshop summaries are published and mirror the newest developments and trends, in particular transparency and access to data, new ways of interacting with governments and democratic institutions and the profound changes in society due to such new tools and procedures.
A discussion over the concept of ERM and its need in a Library. It also covers different software solutions for the management of electronic resources from the libraries.
Shane O'Doherty fue un terrorista del IRA que pasó 14 años en prisión tras ser condenado a 30 cadenas perpetuas. En la cárcel se dio cuenta de su error al estudiar los Derechos Humanos y la Biblia, sintiéndose avergonzado de sus acciones. Decidió pedir perdón públicamente a sus víctimas, aunque muchas no le aceptaron el arrepentimiento. Su experiencia la dejó escrita en un libro, siendo el primer testimonio de un miembro arrepentido del IRA.
The document discusses different perspectives on freedom from various thinkers and texts. It explores freedom as autonomy but also as being in relation to others and truth. True freedom is discussed as not being a will to do whatever one wants, but living within reciprocity and shared standards. Freedom belongs to human nature but can also lead to destruction if not guided by discipline and accountability before God.
The document discusses power and how it relates to work. It defines power as the rate at which work is done, and provides the formula that power is equal to work divided by time. It gives examples of calculating power from examples of objects being moved over distances in certain times, applying force. Units of power like watts and horsepower are also explained.
This document provides instructions for installing the transducer and display unit for the Lowrance Elite 5 Sonar/GPS system. It describes selecting a transducer location with smooth water flow, aligning the transducer bracket for parallel installation, assembling the bracket components, attaching the transducer to the transom, routing cables, and performing a test run to confirm proper installation. The document also notes that these instructions do not fully apply to the Elite 5m since it does not include a transducer.
This newspaper article from The Sun reports on an alleged attack on a former model, Alicia Douvall, by her ex-boyfriend. The headline uses attention-grabbing language to summarize that the ex-boyfriend "battered" Douvall as she drove her car. The article includes a large photo of Douvall with bruises on her face and quotes from her describing the attack. While only telling the story from Douvall's perspective, the article cites her as the source of information and avoids naming the ex-boyfriend since he has only been arrested, not charged, to prevent legal issues like libel.
This document provides information about an 8-day continuing education course on comprehensive restorative and esthetic dentistry offered by the University of the Philippines Manila from March to May 2010. The course will cover fundamentals of esthetic dentistry, clinical esthetic procedures, and additional esthetic procedures through lectures and hands-on workshops. It will be led by 13 instructors who are experts in various fields of restorative and esthetic dentistry. The course fee is 30,000 PHP and space is limited to 20 participants.
Infrastructures Supporting Inter-disciplinary Research - Exemplars from the UK NeISSProject
Infrastructures Supporting Inter-disciplinary Research - Exemplars from the UK . Talk given by Richard Sinnott at Urban Research Infrastructure Network Workshops, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, September 2010.
OCLC Research @ U of Calgary: New directions for metadata workflows across li...OCLC Research
Presentation used as scene setting for 2 days worth of discussion around library, archive & museum convergence, metadata workflows and single search at the University of Calgary.
Individual e journal subscription: assembly requiredxqhiris
The document discusses the challenges of managing individual e-journal subscriptions and recommendations for developing workflows and using tools. It describes the multi-step process involved in gaining access, which includes prioritizing titles, organizing license and access information, selecting tools like Excel and an ERM system, and documenting all actions. Case studies from two universities explain how they audit subscriptions, develop checklists and workflows, and use free and low-cost tools like Excel and an open source ERM to track e-journal access and licenses. The key lessons are to assume nothing, document everything, and check processes periodically.
Metadata practice and direction:a community perspectivelisld
The document discusses metadata practices from a community perspective. It describes how metadata supports operations on resources by providing information without requiring advance knowledge of resources. Multiple communities have different metadata practices reflecting their traditions and needs. Going forward, interoperability is important to share and combine resources and metadata from different sources, while balancing standardization with the realities of diverse legacy systems and community practices.
This document provides an introduction to data mining concepts and techniques. It discusses why data mining is needed due to the massive growth of data. It defines data mining as the extraction of interesting patterns from large datasets. The document outlines the key steps in the knowledge discovery process and how data mining fits within business intelligence applications. It also describes different types of data that can be mined and popular data mining algorithms.
Science is rapidly being brought into the electronic realm and electronic laboratory notebooks (ELN) are a big part of this activity. The representation of the scientific process in the context of an ELN is an important component to making the data recorded in ELNs semantically integrated.
This presentation outlined initial developments of an Electronic Notebook Ontology (ENO) that will help tie together the ExptML ontology, HCLS Community Profile data descriptions, and the VIVO-ISF ontology.
The document provides an overview of the work done at DERI Galway, including developing technologies like SIOC, ActiveRDF, and BrowseRDF to interconnect online communities and enable semantic applications. It also describes JeromeDL, a digital library system that uses semantic metadata and services to allow users to collaboratively browse and share knowledge.
This document describes a case study where the University of Denver used Getty vocabularies as linked open data in a cataloging tool for an academic teaching collection. The tool was designed with a user-friendly interface, Dublin Core metadata, and integrated authority control drawn from sources like ULAN, AAT, and Library of Congress. Screenshots show how materials could be cataloged and metadata exported to other systems using standards from the semantic web like URIs, RDF, and SPARQL. The tool helped increase efficiency and quality of metadata production for the teaching collection.
On Tuesday 18 September 2007, Ben Shneiderman gave a talk at the Centre for HCI Design, City University London, on the topic of information visualisation for high-dimensional spaces. Over 100 people from industry and academia attended the talk.
http://hcid.soi.cty.ac.uk/
ACS 248th Paper 146 VIVO/ScientistsDB Integration into EurekaStuart Chalk
This document discusses integrating faculty and scientist profiling data from external sources like VIVO and ScientistsDB into the Eureka Research Workbench system. It presents the motivations for enhancing collaboration features in Eureka. Details are provided on accessing data through the APIs of VIVO, ScientistsDB, and Elasticsearch to profile and search for researchers. The implementation involves developing CakePHP plugins to ingest data from these sources. Future plans include expanding the number of integrated sources to better enable finding collaborators.
Further Information: http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem
The CeDEM12 proceedings present the essence of academic and practical knowledge on e-democracy and open government in a nutshell. All selected academic papers, keynotes, short presentations and workshop summaries are published and mirror the newest developments and trends, in particular transparency and access to data, new ways of interacting with governments and democratic institutions and the profound changes in society due to such new tools and procedures.
A discussion over the concept of ERM and its need in a Library. It also covers different software solutions for the management of electronic resources from the libraries.
towards interoperable archives: the Universal Preprint Service initiativeHerbert Van de Sompel
The document discusses the Universal Preprint Service initiative which aims to promote interoperability between preprint archives. It provides background on existing preprint models and services. The initiative is supported by several organizations and held its first meeting in 1999 to discuss technical recommendations for achieving interoperability between archives.
Presented at the 2010 Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference.
Mingyu Chen, University of Houston; Jeannie Downey, Emory University
Abstract: Searches, sessions, article requests - we have access to data, but what's the next step? Learn how the University of Arizona Libraries' Spending Reduction Project analyzed usage of different types of resources to assess them against quality standards and make cancellation decisions. Tools, challenges, and organizational approaches will also be discussed.
- The RDA Plenary 2 was held in Washington D.C. from September 16-18, with 368 participants from 22 countries and all sectors.
- There were keynote speeches, panels on global partnerships and affiliate organizations, and meetings of RDA working groups and interest groups.
- The RDA community has grown to over 1,300 participants from over 50 countries, with two-thirds from academia. There is increasing momentum and interactions between groups.
- Plans are underway to develop policies, determine deliverables, and build the RDA organizational structure with members and affiliates. The next plenaries will be in Dublin in March 2014 and the Netherlands in September 2014.
The “use” of an electronic resource from a social network analysis perspectiveMarie Kennedy
This document discusses using social network analysis to understand how electronic resources are used in an academic setting. It analyzes usage data from the Gimlet system at Loyola Marymount University, which records over 11,000 reference transactions over one year. Social network analysis identified relationships between specific resources mentioned and which ones were not. This approach provides additional context beyond traditional usage metrics like COUNTER, and suggests social network analysis can offer a more complete picture of how resources are used.
Learning to Give a Hoot: Open Access Workflows for Academic LibrariansJill Emery
This document discusses OAWAL (Open Access Workflows for Academic Librarians), which aims to create an openly accessible wiki with best practices and examples of open access workflows for librarians. It will cover topics like advocacy, models and mandates, standards, library publishing, discovery, and crowdsourcing international examples. The goal is a reference for librarians new to or taking on open access responsibilities. It encourages feedback and discussion to further develop topics and ensure international representation.
Ethics of Access: Is This Message Understood?Jill Emery
This document discusses issues around open access to information and intellectual property. It begins by distinguishing between open versus free dissemination of content and addresses the confusion this causes. Examples are given of how blog posts and figures can be shared without proper attribution. The document then discusses how content travels online from one site to another. Issues around who owns the rights to 3D printed designs and creations are raised. The document proposes some solutions like creating expanded citation guides and linking to university copyright policies. It encourages assigning digital object identifiers to scholarly blogs and use of Creative Commons to provide persistence and proper attribution as scholarship moves beyond traditional formats. The document concludes by inviting questions.
Cost of open what do you reckon it will be-Jill Emery
1. Several models for publishing and providing access to scholarly content currently have traction, including pre-prints, article processing charges (APCs) in hybrid journals, read-only access to journals, fully open access journals supported by library subscriptions, and open access monographs.
2. There is debate around whether APC costs and subscription costs for hybrid journals support different activities and should not be conflated, as most publishers claim, or whether they represent double-dipping.
3. Payment of APCs currently comes mostly from research offices and grants rather than library budgets, but libraries may play a larger role if collections budgets can cover rising journal costs in the future.
Presentation given at the Mobius 2014 conference. This talk outlines paths collection management librarians can utilize to address the acquisitions and management of library materials. Collection managers have robust and extensive networks of talented colleagues, who help enrich and vitalize the daily operations and processes undertaken at any given library. Jill Emery will present ways in which collection managers can leverage these networks to enhance and create strategies to develop better information communication both within and outside the library. By becoming a network center, collection managers can create a dynamo effect that spreads out through the library organization as a whole.
Techniques for Electronic Resource Management: Crowdsourcing for Best PracticesJill Emery
We invited interested librarians via social media venues such as Facebook, twitter, Tumblr & a wiki. Come learn how this experiment worked and participate in the development of capturing the best practices of electronic resource management. The TERMS Library Technology Report will be made available to attendees.
This document discusses organizational structures and job spaces that support serendipity. It considers hierarchical, flat, and network structures as well as project teams. Job spaces for students and staff are mentioned, such as coffee houses. Optimal structures may include affiliation and cross-work groups. Personal creativity involves preparation, incubation, illumination and implementation. The document lists relevant reading materials and thanks participants.
Discovering open access content: a conversationJill Emery
This presentation was developed for Online Northwest 2014 to be a conversation around the OAWAL Project: https://library3.hud.ac.uk/blogs/oawal/ and in particular discovery of open access materials. Any feedback about discovery of OA resources can be directed to me or to the wiki/blog comments section.
Breaking Silos: Staffing for the OA Library SPARC 2014 Jill Emery
This presentation was given at the SPARC OA 2014 Conference and gives a basic outline on how to utilize current staffing structures & personnel for OA management in libraries.
This document summarizes usage statistics from three academic libraries - Portland State University, Oregon Health & Science University, and Lewis & Clark College - regarding titles removed and added to their EBSCOhost aggregator package in 2012-2013. It found that the removed titles had much higher usage on average than the added titles. The changes also led to increases in interlibrary loan requests at two of the libraries. All three libraries will need to re-evaluate their need for full-text aggregator collections and identify alternative access options for high-use titles that were removed.
The role of consortia in electronic resources subscriptionsJill Emery
The document discusses Portland State University Library's perspective on consortia purchases of electronic resources through the Orbis Cascade Alliance. It notes that PSU saves over a million dollars through Alliance deals, obtaining 15% of its core databases and over 50% of journal packages at reduced costs. However, Alliance participation also complicates collection decisions and sets purchase timelines. Overall, the benefits of increased access and testing of resources outweigh the additional workflow.
This document discusses marketing library resources to individuals. It outlines the library systems in use like next generation catalogs, discovery tools, and demand driven acquisitions. It also touches on how the library impacts resource provision, repository access, and discovery through library portals, which is especially important for accessing secondary scholarly literature, as supported by an Ithaka S+R faculty survey from 2012. The document concludes by providing contact information for the author to field any questions.
This document discusses library resource management systems and the importance of consistent metadata standards. It mentions several library management systems like Sierra, Alma, and Intota. The document emphasizes using accepted standards to provide better linking capabilities between resources and avoid proprietary systems. Consistency in metadata is presented as a necessity.
The document discusses how librarians' mission is to facilitate knowledge creation through improving access to information. It considers how open access publishing is changing the role of librarians and libraries. Key points discussed include how open access affects acquisition of resources, cataloging, collection development, and tracking of faculty publishing and metrics. The document outlines stakeholders within the library and university that will be impacted by these changes and proposes service plans to address issues around acquisitions, cataloging, collection development, and more to adapt to the age of open access.
This document summarizes the results of a survey of major publishers regarding their open access hybrid journal programs. The survey found that while hybrid journal programs have been in place for several years, uptake of open access remains relatively low, averaging around 1-10% of total articles. Publishers reported offering discounts on subscription costs if a certain percentage of articles in a journal or from an institution are open access. However, tracking of open access articles and providing usage statistics to libraries remains a challenge.
This document summarizes recent developments regarding open access policies in the UK, EU, and US. In the UK, the Research Councils UK policy supports both gold and green open access routes, with funding provided through block grants. The EU's Horizon 2020 program requires open access to research papers and data from publicly funded projects, allowing fees to be paid upfront. In the US, various institutions like the University of California system are considering open access mandates, while legislation like the FASTR bill could lead to national policies. These changes may impact journal subscriptions over time as open access publishing increases. Tracking systems like ORCID will help libraries manage the transition.
This document discusses hybrid open access (OA) publishing models from the perspective of librarians. It summarizes a survey of major publishers' hybrid OA programs, including costs, growth rates, discounts, and tracking practices. It then provides strategies for librarians to engage with hybrid OA, such as educating stakeholders, developing funding models, promoting standards, and exploring centralized tracking and payment options. The document concludes by emphasizing the role of libraries in supporting diverse OA publishing options.
The document outlines techniques for electronic resource management, including 6 key terms:
1) Investigation of new content which involves needs assessment, trials, and vendor discussions.
2) Acquisition by comparing specifications, negotiating licenses, and signing agreements.
3) Implementation through testing, training, and launching resources.
4) Ongoing evaluation and access such as usage statistics, platform changes, and uptime tracking.
5) Annual reviews to confirm costs, usage, and make renewal decisions.
6) Cancellation and replacement procedures like stakeholder consultation, notification, and exploring open access options.
This document discusses the importance of organization for 21st century librarians, covering topics such as information organization skills, levels of granularity in network organization, metadata variations like administrative and descriptive, and examples of information organization needs such as a librarian job posting. It also touches on personal organization skills needed for presenting yourself on paper, in person, and in your job. The document concludes by thanking the audience and providing contact information for the presenting librarian.
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Editor's Notes
In an essay in the 2003 book: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman, he writes: “ Consequently, we learned how to use tools most of us don’t understand. This has always been the case with technology, but not quite to this extent. I mean, I drive a car that I can’t fix and that I could certainly never build, but I still understand how it works in a way that goes (slightly) beyond the theoretical. I could explain how a car works to a ten-year-old. Conversely, I don’t understand anything about the construction of the Internet, beyond those conventional Newsweek factoids that everyone knows (and which still seem borderline impossible.) I have no practical knowledge of the “information superhighway.” And I’m not interested in how it works; I just want to feel like I vaguely grasp its potential and vaguely understand how to use that potential to my advantage.” In the June 24/July 1 issue, Entertainment Weekly deems Chuck Klosterman, “…one of America’s top cultural critics.” The magazine also lists him as a member of the 122 people and things we love this summer. Mr. Klosterman is thirty-three years old and a self-admitted Gen-Xer. If we believe Entertainment Weekly, we can conclude that Mr. Klosterman is a representative voice of his generation. The one question that I wish Mr. Klosterman had considered asking in his essay was the potential that a ten-year-old could explain to him how the Internet works, as it has been pointed out in various other venues that most ten-year-olds have a much better grasp of technology than many adults do. Why is this important to libraries and librarians? Mainly, because many of us are in the same boat as Mr. Klosterman, we understand or are at the point of grasping the potential of all of this electronic stuff but are often serving a patron base that is much more savvy and aware of how these things work than we are. In relation to the development of electronic resource management tools, and the processing of electronic resources, this attitude and admittance about the potential of the electronic environment we live in has everything to do with library operations, workflow construction, and the importance of our implementation of electronic resource management tools. How so, you ask? We have to ask ourselves two essential questions when it comes to electronic resource management. The first question is what are the problems of electronic resource management that we currently face are we trying to solve? Secondly, what is it that we’re attempting to achieve with the implementation of electronic management tools which will make this accessibility of resources more readily available to end-user?
However, before we get to answering these questions, we need to establish a few definitions or at the very least, I ask for you to set aside any preconceived notions you may have in regards to electronic resources and electronic resource management and accept my definitions of these things. So here we go, I define an electronic resource as an item to which a library pays for access or has established access to via the Web OPAC and/or via the web pages designed and controlled by a given library. An electronic resource can be an electronic document, an electronic thesis/dissertation, an electronic book, an electronic journal, an electronic governmental publication, an electronically accessible image, etc. Basically, it is an e-thing deemed valuable by a given library that access should be provided to it. The secondary definition of an electronic resource is that it is available 24/7 or whenever an end-user wants to access it via the library’s web presence.
Ellen Finnie Duranceau from MIT helps to define electronic resource management as the support of an electronic resource from selection through purchase, access, license management, end-user support, evaluation, and renewal and cancellation in her September 2004 article “Electronic Resource Management systems From ILS Vendors,” that appeared in Against the Grain .
Now that we’ve defined these two terms, we can move onto what are electronic resource management tools? In the broadest context, electronic resource management tools are any products or series of products that allow for a library to support the electronic resource provision to their end-users. In the narrowest definition, electronic resource management tools are the recent spate of stand-alone modules developed by ILS vendors to manage electronic resources that can be integrated into existing ILS or which can stand outside of any given ILS.
The buzz most recently in regards to electronic resource management tools have been primarily about the ILS vendor tools. As you can see, just about every major ILS provider has an electronic resource management tool either in the early stages of release or in the late stages of development. Let’s go through these quickly. In addition, other major market players such as the subscription vendors and electronic journal management systems also have had products available that aid with the management of electronic resources.
Lastly, we should also note some of the more widely discussed home-grown electronic resource management tools that have been presented in both the library literature and at major library conferences.
The best place to go to find out what is currently available and what the overall specifications are in regards to individual products both commercially developed and developed in-house at various institutions is the Web Hub for Developing Administrative Metadata for Electronic Resource Management, located at this web address: http://www.library.cornell.edu/cts/elicensestudy/home.html . In fact between the information provided here and the chart covering ILS vendors provided by Ellen Finnie Duranceau in her article in Against the Grain , it seems redundant for me to cover specifics of all of the products available on the market at the moment. Suffice it to say that there are a myriad of products all offering different management strengths when it comes to electronic resource management. On the handout that accompanies this presentation, you have been given both this web site address and the citation to Ellen’s article.
In the book Project Management Nation, Jason Charvat writes: “Without a strategic plan in place, executives can literally move from one solution offering to the next, spending millions of dollars in the process, with the result being that many projects head south.” The majority of libraries in the United States of America exist in non-profit institutions, but more and more, libraries have to prove their cost benefit to the populations they serve. This is especially true in higher education organizations. Therefore, it serves the technical services staff or the electronic management staff well to establish the implementation of an electronic resource management tool in the context of the libraries overall strategic initiatives or plan. This should also help define what it is attempting to be solved by implementation of the electronic resource management tool and even help define which tools a library should look at in regards to electronic resource management. For instance, if the problem that a library is trying to solve is that the electronic management sits outside of the integrated library system and this is causing disconnection in the payment and processing of electronic resources then a tool that is part of the integrated library system is all that needs to be considered. However, if the problem is that there is a disconnect between the payment of a resource and the activation of resources once payment is made, then a subscription vendor product such as Ebsco’s EJS may be the best tool to address this issue. Each library has the potential of establishing a different set of needs that could be addressed by a electronic resource management tool.
Libraries must start their review of electronic resource management tools by performing a needs assessment and determining exactly what problems should be fixed or addressed. This may seem elementary but in fact, much of marketing around electronic resource management tools present them as a magic solution which will streamline and make all problems in relation to electronic resource management go away. Often times what is needed is not only a management tool, but a re-conceptualization of the organization and methodology of handling electronic resources. As shown in a previous diagram, the management of electronic resources is cyclical and in turn, transformative of library operations. Instead of processing material in a linear fashion to end-up in storage on a library shelf, we are consistently juggling access points and management of these access points from a myriad of directions. There is constant upkeep that must occur with each renewal, each title activation, each holdings update, each platform change, and each URL switch. To date, no one electronic management tool actual does this work for a library. What the electronic management tool does is bring together the discrete elements of information needed to make these processes easier. However, each system brings these elements together slightly differently so it is up to each individual library to determine which of the discrete elements are needed at their institution to make these processes work in better harmony.